Re: Using md5sum for svn status

Marcus Rueckert <darix@web.de> writes:
> i checked it. it really does.

It "really does" what?

> subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c
> [[[
> /* Do a byte-for-byte comparison of FILE1 and FILE2. */
> static svn_error_t *
> contents_identical_p (svn_boolean_t *identical_p,
> const char *file1,
> const char *file2,
> apr_pool_t *pool)
> ]]]

Are you just reading the (misleading) comment, or did you read the
code?

> so if you consider the idea of storing the md5sum of the WC file. the
> question is: what costs more time?
> the line-ending/keyword processing or the md5sum.

Oh, I think what Philip said makes a lot of sense. It's a bit
orthogonal to your original question, though, and to the behavior of
contents_identical_p().

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Received on Wed Apr 27 06:36:45 2005